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St. Bartholomew, also know as St. Nathaniel, was chosen to be one of the original twelve Apostles. Little is know for sure of his missionary worker after Christ's Ascension; however, there is an early tradition that he preached the gospel in India and later suffered martyrdom in Armenia, being skinned alive.

Elected Pope after the terrible persecution of Decius, St. Cornelius addressed the Christians who had lapsed during the persecution, stressing both the need for penance and the possibility of pardon. Pope St. Cornelius died a martyr himself, during the reign of Emperor Gallus in the mid-third century.